[Paraview] Remote render / composite settings with MPI pvserver

[Berk Geveci]

Have you tried one node server with composite threshold set to 0 after
compiling with ice-t?

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Sean Ziegeler
<seanzig at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Berk,
>  No trickery; I just turn off PARAVIEW_USE_ICE_T in CMake.  I am using cmake
> and not ccmake, so maybe that variable not exposed anymore in ccmake?
> Anyway, my initial thought was to make things as simple as possible since
> AIX is less popular and PV is less tested than, say, on Linux.  I did some
> looking into it, and I think ICE-T is definitely the way to go, and it
> builds just fine.  Unfortunately, I get an entirely black screen when
> running.
>
>  I would say I could try running the ICE-T tests, but I'm not sure how,
> given that I'm building for MPI.  The system uses batch queues to submit MPI
> jobs.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Sean
>
>
>
>  Berk Geveci wrote:
>
> > Sean,
> >
> > What do you mean by without ICE-T? I don't think you can really turn
> > off ICE-T anymore. It should always be there as long as you turn on
> > MPI. Did you have do any trickery to turn it off?
> >
> > -berk
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Sean Ziegeler
> > <seanzig at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm trying to do remote rendering with client-server, where the server
> is
> > > running in parallel on AIX.  The problem is that it only renders the
> block
> > > from the first task, as if the compositing is not happening.  So, I'm
> trying
> > > to figure out if it's an AIX-related issue or I'm just doing something
> dumb
> > > with the build or one of the settings.  So, here's all the relevant info
> I
> > > can think of:
> > >
> > >  Versions: 3.2.1 and CVS (about 1 week old)
> > >  Build: AIX using VisualAge compiler, cross-compiled using mpCC, 64-bit
> > >  With: Python 2.5.1, Mesa 7.0.2 w/OSMesa
> > >  ICE-T: Without
> > >  Server:
> > >        Command: mpirun.lsf pvserver --use-offscreen-rendering
> > >           also tried --disable-compositing  (grasping at straws here)
> > >        LSF processors: 8
> > >        Cleared the DISPLAY env var
> > >  Client:
> > >        Remote Render Threshold: 0 (to force remote rendering)
> > >        Disable Ordered Compositing: Tried Off & On
> > >        Everything else at defaults as well
> > >
> > >  It happens with any source or data sets, and with any of the filters
> I've
> > > tried.  If I turn off Remote Rendering (i.e., force client rendering)
> things
> > > look fine.
> > >
> > >  Then I thought maybe I should try building ICE-T.  I did that with
> 3.2.1
> > > and now I just get a black screen, except for the little axis widget.  I
> > > haven't tried with ICE-T and CVS yet.  After that, I'm out of
> permutations.
> > >
> > >  Any ideas?
> > >
> > >  Thanks,
> > >  Sean
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